Random thoughts on humility: Matthew – “You are what is called a arrogant liberal elitist.” (Matthew was pissed that I had facts to back up my position that clearly showed that he was incorrect. This did not slow him down in the least; when you have “faith” why let little things like facts get...
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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Random thoughts on humility
Thomas Paine Was A Socialist
The Modern “Tea Party” and Historical Ignorance This is an extremely popular video among Tea Party groups that exposes their profound ignorance of both history, and political philosophy. This Party favorite video has been viewed 3,615,985 times and has received over 12,000 likes. The man in the video (Bob Basso author of “Common Sense”)...
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Quote of the Day: George Orwell – Smashing Fascist Faces
While this Orwell quote is fiction, the one off my FaceBook wall from a strong Tea Party supporter (below the Orwell quote) is reality. “It was a voice that sounded as if it could go on for a fortnight without stopping. It’s a ghastly thing really, to have a sort of human barrel-organ shooting...
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What is a working day?
“But in its blind unrestrained passion, its werewolf hunger for surplus labour, capital oversteps not only the moral, but even the merely physical maximum bounds of the working day. It usurps time for growth, development, and healthy maintenance of the body. It steals the time required for the consumption of fresh air and sunlight....
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Quote of the Day: Shelby Steele – "Hard-Work Militancy"
Quote of the Day: Shelby Steele – “Hard-Work Militancy” “Authentic black militancy, of the sort that Malcolm X at times seemed capable of, always embraced responsibility as power itself. It demanded only the freedom and equal treatment under the law that would allow responsibility to be the same fount of hope, power, and advancement...
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Tea Party Fascism Leader Pamela Geller Turned Away From Hotel
Tea Party Fascism Leader Pam Geller Turned Away From Hotel: “A week after a Hyatt Place hotel forced the Sugar Land Tea Party to move their controversial event featuring Pamela Geller, the same thing seems to be happening in Nashville.” Another hotel turns away Pamela Geller and anti-Shariah group Tennessean reports that Hutton Hotel...
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Quote of the Day: Ken Wilber – Forces of Shallowness
Quote of the Day: Ken Wilber – Forces of Shallowness “It is often said that today’s modern and postmodern world, the forces of darkness are upon us. But I think not; in the Dark and Deep there are truths that can always heal” “It is not the forces of darkness but of shallowness that...
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Quote of the Day: Irving Kristol – What is Neoconservatism?
Quote of the Day: Irving Kristol – What is Neoconservatism? “What, exactly, is neoconservatism anyway? I would say the erosion of liberal faith among a relatively small but talented and articulate group of scholars and intellectuals, and the movement of this group (which gradually gained many new recruits) toward a more conservative point of...
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Quote of the Day: Karl Marx, The Money Famine
Quote of the Day: Karl Marx “This contradiction comes to a head in those phases of industrial and commercial crises which are known as monetary crises. Such a crisis occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments, and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully developed. Whenever there is a general and...
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